The novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton was based in America’s 1960s and was an example of the social divisions that occurred between social classes. The 1960s consisted of two main gangs: the Greasers and the Socials. These two groups isolated themselves by the amount of money they had. The Greasers were part of the lower social class and the Socials (Socs) were part of the upper social class. The family income usually determined where a family settled, so the rich Socs often lived in the wealthy westside, while the Greasers lived in the poor eastside, separating the social classes. This divide pushed the youth to find peers closest to them, so Greasers and Socs were rarely spotted hanging out together. Something that also further separated